“…A growing body of literature has sought to explain the recent expansion of family policies (Bonoli, 2005;Daly, 2010;Hantrais, 1999;Henninger et al, 2008;Knijn and Saraceno, 2010;Leitner, 2010;Mätzke and Ostner, 2010;Morgan, 2013;Williamson and Carnes, 2013). One strand of this new work, which might be called the 'partisan convergence' approach, argues that parties with divergent ideological orientations have adopted overlapping policy goals regarding non-staple issues -such as family policy -due to the emergence of an increasingly dealigned female vote (Morgan, 2013).…”